Mohsin Basheer is a 6th semester mechanical engineering student at section A. The document summarizes a fire incident that occurred on September 21, 2020 at the Evergreen Packaging Paper Mill in Canton, North Carolina, USA during a planned mill-wide shutdown. Evergreen hired two contractors, Universal Blastco and Rimcor, to perform repairs on the D2 up flow and down flow towers. On the morning of the incident, the low temperature was 47°F, so heat guns were used.

2. Name: Mohsin Basheer
• Reg. No. BSME01193098
• Section: A
• Semester: 6th
• Department: Mechanical Engineering

3. Fire During Hot Work at Evergreen Packaging
Paper Mill
• Incident Date: September 21, 2020
• Location: Canton NC
• NC mean North Carolina
• USA

5. Mill Shutdown and Maintenance
• On Thursday, September 17, 2020, Evergreen began a mill wide shutdown,
which Evergreen calls a “cold mill outage.” During this type of shutdown,
Evergreen halts all production, including all power and utilities. Cold mill
outages are rare; according to Evergreen personnel, the last one was in 2011.

6. Contractors
• Evergreen hired two contractors to make the repairs to the D2 up flow and
down flow towers during the shutdown: Universal Blastco (“Blastco”) and
Rimcor. Leading up to and during the incident, Blastco was working in the
upflow tower, while Rimcor was working simultaneously in the downflow
tower.

7. Weather at Time of Incident
• Weather Service for September 21, 2020, indicate that the low temperature
on the morning of the incident was 47℉ at 12:11 a.m.
• Therefore, they use Heat Gun for high temperature.